Even if the vacuum was full with lint and metal shavings, left running with a faulty cord in a pool of gasoline, stored next to leaking barrels of rocket fuel, open boxes of strike anywhere matches, and random fireworks scattered all around it, I still wouldn't believe this.

There's a fairly famous "operating experience" where a misplaced roll of paper towels lead to the total destruction of a turbine.

And another of a tablespoon of metal shavings migrating from a fringe system, into a reactor, threading most of the fuel and causing "leakers" that all had to be removed and replaced before their life was spent.

Ringshadow:There's a fairly famous "operating experience" where a misplaced roll of paper towels lead to the total destruction of a turbine.

And another of a tablespoon of metal shavings migrating from a fringe system, into a reactor, threading most of the fuel and causing "leakers" that all had to be removed and replaced before their life was spent.

/the little things can get you

We put a sandwich in the Steam Generator once. Didn't do anything though obviously.

Ringshadow:There's a fairly famous "operating experience" where a misplaced roll of paper towels lead to the total destruction of a turbine.

And another of a tablespoon of metal shavings migrating from a fringe system, into a reactor, threading most of the fuel and causing "leakers" that all had to be removed and replaced before their life was spent.

/the little things can get you

Or like when that giant tsunami washed over those reactors and they melted down? That was awesome.